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enHorizon Lands Turner's Media Buying Business http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/horizon-lands-turners-media-buying-business-159827
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Turner Broadcasting has awarded the bulk of its media buying business to Horizon Media after a review, confirmed Dennis Camlek, svp of Turner.&nbsp;</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">The broadcaster&#39;s entertainment and news networks, including Cartoon Network, CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Turner Sports and Turner Classic Movies, spend an estimated $150 million in media annually. Media </span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">planning will continue to be handled in-house.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Horizon will buy media for all networks except truTV, which Media Storm will continue to handle.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">In making the selection, Camlek cited Horizon&#39;s </span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/horizon-bolsters-branded-content-offering-robert-friedman-deal-152851" target="_blank">experience with cable networks</a> A&amp;E and The History Channel, pricing and leadership teams.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">&quot;There&#39;s been a change in the marketplace, it&#39;s harder to get audiences to tune-in live and we wanted a clean slate,&quot; Camlek added.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">In its search, Turner contacted more than a half-dozen agencies before narrowing the field to three. </span><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">The incumbent, MediaVest, which </span><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/mediavest-wins-turner-account-114659" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;" target="_blank">won the assignment in 2010</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">, did not defend.&nbsp;</span></p>
Advertising & BrandingDennis CamlekHorizon MediaMedia BuyingMedia StormMediaVestKristina MonllosTue, 02 Sep 2014 17:20:10 +0000159827 at http://www.adweek.comTurner, CBS Outdoor Tip Off NYC Subway Media Playhttp://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/turner-cbs-outdoor-tip-nyc-subway-media-play-156208
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In what&rsquo;s being billed as the biggest underground digital out-of-home network to date, CBS Outdoor and Turner Broadcasting System have teamed up to bring a little dazzle to the New York City subway system.</p>
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Under its recently launched Ignite: Innovations Lab initiative, CBS Outdoor has installed 10 big video screens in some of Manhattan&rsquo;s busiest commuter hubs, including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority stations at Times Square, Herald Square and Columbus Circle.</p>
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Standing 66 inches, or five-and-a-half feet high, and about three-feet wide, the new video installations have been deployed ahead of CBS and Turner&rsquo;s joint <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/television/march-madness-all-sold-out-148088" target="_blank">March Madness</a> coverage. While Turner will use the screens to promote the <a href="http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness" target="_blank">NCAA Division I Men&rsquo;s Basketball Championship</a>, it will also stream promos for its entertainment and news programming on TNT, TBS, truTV, Adult Swim and CNN.</p>
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While the screens have been set up to maximize impressions in advance of March Madness, the deal will keep the units lit through at least March 2015.&nbsp;</p>
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According to Dennis Camlek, svp, Turner Media Group, the subway screen loops are about five minutes in duration, and all content is fed to the displays from the Atlanta campus. Camlek said that content can be swapped out practically in real time, with a lag of 30 seconds at the most.</p>
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While the colors and images displayed on the screens are particularly dynamic, there is no associated audio feed. &ldquo;That was something we went back and forth on,&rdquo; Camlek said. &ldquo;But because the MTA&rsquo;s safety messages are of the utmost importance, we thought we&rsquo;d hang back on the audio.&rdquo;</p>
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Camlek added that while the 10 screens will be seen by a great number of TV viewers&mdash;approximately <a href="http://mta.info/nyct/facts/ffintro.htm" target="_blank">7 million commuters</a> walk through the NYC subway turnstiles every day&mdash;the number of media buyers and other agency personnel that will pass the displays is a nice bonus.</p>
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&ldquo;It&rsquo;s both consumer- and industry-facing,&rdquo; Camlek said. &ldquo;On the one hand, you have millions of people passing through these stations every day. And some of these are people in the entertainment community and part of the buying culture &hellip; so it&rsquo;s an added bonus to reach them as well.&rdquo;</p>
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At present, Turner is using the screens to promote the hoops tourney as well as the new CNN docuseries <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/us/chicagoland?SR=Chicagoland_cnn" target="_blank">Chicagoland</a> and the TNT dramas <a href="http://www.tntdrama.com/series/rizzoli-and-isles/" target="_blank">Rizzoli &amp; Isles</a> and Dallas.</p>
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According to CBS Outdoor CMO Jodi Senese, the duration between conception and deployment was about six months.</p>
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While the video screens would seem to offer an irresistible target to vandals and other ne&rsquo;er-do-wells, Senese said that the units will be well looked after. &ldquo;By and large, we foresee no issues with people tampering with the screens,&rdquo; Senese said. &ldquo;They are in very high-profile locations within very high-profile stations &hellip; and by virtue of where they are positioned, we believe that they are far less likely to be targeted.&rdquo;</p>
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Senese was quick to note that the <a href="https://www.cbsoutdoor.com/markets/marketsearch/newyorkcity/newyorksubwayadvertising.aspx" target="_blank">MTA and New York City Transit</a> were &ldquo;absolute critical partners in helping get this off the ground,&rdquo; adding that the subway system is committed to offering its advertising clients a &ldquo;world-class system idea where everything is relevant and current.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
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If the all-Manhattan deployment may seem a tiny bit myopic&mdash;after all, there are millions of relevant targets in Brooklyn and Queens&mdash;Camlek said the Manhattan launch is just the beginning. &ldquo;Our goal is to definitely expand the network going into 2015 and beyond,&rdquo; he said.</p>
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MediaVest, a unit of Publicis Groupe, is the agency behind the effort. This is only the latest in a series of firsts for Turner, which in fall 2010 <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/tbs-pitches-nyc-subways-103343" target="_blank">installed video screens in the S trains</a> running between New York&#39;s Times Square and Grand Central Terminal to promote the MLB Playoffs on TBS.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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March Madness tips off Tuesday, March 18, on truTV.</p>
Advertising & BrandingTelevisionAdult SwimCableCbsCBS OutdoorAnthony CrupiCnnDallasDennis CamlekJodi SeneseMarch MadnessMlbMTANCAA Division I Men’s Basketball TournamentNetworksNew York City SubwayNewsOut Of HomeRizzoli & IslesSportsTbsTntTrutvTurner Broadcasting SystemTurner EntertainmentMon, 10 Mar 2014 11:17:57 +0000156208 at http://www.adweek.com